UK -- Liebe Brüder und Schwestern, Ya Ali Madad. Wir wissen, dass auf Grund des COVID-19 viele Familien aus Deutschland und Österreich eine schwere Zeit vor sich haben.Seien Sie versichert, dass die Institutionen hier sind, um Sie zu unterstützen, und dass wir unser Möglichstes tun werden, um Ihnen in dieser schwierigen Zeit zu helfen. Die AKEPB hat eine Checkliste erstellt und ...
UK -- Dear Brothers and Sisters, Ya Ali Madad. During this time of COVID-19, we know that this a very difficult time for you and your family in Germany and Austria. Please rest assured the Institutions are here to support you and will do our utmost to help you in this difficult time. The AKEPB has prepared a checklist of items ...
UK -- Aga Khan Economic Planning Board for the United KingdomSavvy Saving(Last Updated: 6 April 2020) The Aga Khan Economic Planning Board (AKEPB) has created the Savvy Saving column in the Al-Saha Daily Digest. This column is designed to provide financial planning tips including updates on government regulations and how they affect the Jamat during this time of the COVID-19 crisis. ...
"The Nature of Prayer' is a 14" x 10" mixed media acrylic painting on canvas. Secured on the canvas with gesso, a strong glue, are a handmade tasbih (prayer beads), and 3 dried leaves bearing the Arabic inscriptions reading from bottom to top, Allah, Muhammad and Ali. The whole piece represents keeping the memory of Allah, and making sure that every day ...
Make a dazzling piece of art inspired by John Akomfrah's design for Sanctuary. When creating his carpet design for the exhibition, the Ghanaian-British artist drew inspiration from 9,000-plus-year-old cave markings from the Caves de las Manos in Argentina. The materials you'll need for the activity are markers, a drawing pencil, and a sheet of paper. Let's get creative and have fun! ...
AKEPB for the USA - HR Insights for Salaried Employees and Professional Services ...
USA -- We are starting a special week of reflection through daily articles focused on inspirations from the Qur'an. As we reflect upon our current circumstances, let us collectively pray for the easing of our difficulties. Inshallah, as we undertake this journey, we will find peace in our hearts and the strength to overcome adversity.When faced with problems, we often ask: ...
No matter what a viral YouTube video tells you, you don't need to sanitize your fruits and vegetables. Here are evidence-based tips for grocery shopping safely during the COVID-19 outbreak - ...
AKEPB for the USA - Financial Impact of Corona Virus (Covid-19) ...
Naad E Ali, Original Song at Youtube, Munir Gillani Official Nade Ali, Nade Ali, Nade Ali Nade Aliyyan mazhar al-ajaib Tajidahu awnan lakafin-nawaib Kullu hammin wa ghammin sayanj-i Ali Bi wilayatika, Ya Ali! Ya Ali! Ya Ali! Note: The lyrics of the translation in the song are slightly different from the following translation: Call Ali call Ali call Ali, the manifestation ...
AKEPB for the USA - Employment Update for Small Business Owners and Employees ...
Portugal -- On 26th of March of the current year, the President of the Republic of Angola, His Excellency João Lourenço, declared State of National Emergency, starting at midnight on 27 March this year and for 15 days. This period may be extended.The President believes that the public health emergency is characterized as a situation that demands urgent implementation of exceptional ...
Message from the Ismaili Council for the Midwest United States ...
Portugal -- For the prevention and reporting of Suspected Cases of occurrences of COVID-19, members of the Jamat should use the following contacts in order of priority: HELP LINE COUNCIL FOR ANGOLA (+244) 912 098 199 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE LINE ANGOLA (+244) 937 503 349 / 925 053 250 / 923 525 800 If you cannot contact the Epidemiological Surveillance Line Angola, ...
STATNEWS.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: John P.A. Ioannidis is professor of medicine, epidemiology and population health, and statistics at Stanford University. Respected globally, he has spent his career challenging and exposing bad science.] ARTICLE: Covid-19, has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it may also be a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco. The data collected so far are utterly unreliable due to limited testing to date. The vast majority of infections are probably being missed and we don't know whether by a factor of 3 or 300. The Diamond Princess cruise ship is the only time an entire population was tested. The fatality rate there was 1.0%, but this was largely an elderly population. Even some so-called mild or common-cold-type coronaviruses have fatality rates as high as 8% amongst elderly people in nursing homes. Projecting the Princess mortality rate onto the the U.S. population, [and adjusting for various sources of uncertainty], reasonable fatality estimates vary from 0.05% to 1%. A fatality rate of 0.05% is lower than seasonal influenza. However, the most valuable piece of information ...
SPECTATOR.CO.UK -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: John Lee is a recently retired professor of pathology and a former NHS consultant pathologist.] ARTICLE: There's another serious problem with COVID-19 UK mortality data: the way deaths are recorded. We don't really test for flu, or seasonal infections. This means respiratory infection deaths are under recorded. However, the list of notifiable diseases on death has now been amended to include COVID-19. But not flu. That means every positive test for COVID-19 must be notified, but not flu or most other infections. If we tracked flu or other seasonal viruses in the same way as COVID-19, they would show similar exponential increases in cases and deaths. For example, the US CDC publishes weekly estimates of flu cases. Since September, flu has infected 38 million Americans, hospitalised 390,000 and killed 23,000. This does not cause public alarm because flu is familiar. Much of the COVID-19 response seems due to ...
Paycheck Protection Program: Form Filling Guide Webinar Aga Khan Economic and Planning Board for the USA ...
In his Memoirs, Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah states: "During the previous year [1896] there had been sinister rumours that an epidemic of bubonic plague was sedulously and remorselessly spreading westwards across Asia. There had been a bad outbreak in Hong King; sporadically it appeared in towns and cities farther and farther west. When in the late summer of 1897 it hit ...
Portugal -- Abertura do programa semanal Soulful time - semana de 3 de abril de 2020 legendado em inglês. ...
VIDDLER.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Very highly recommended documentary. As you watch reflect on Hazar Imam's 2007 remark at the Aga Khan Academy, Mombasa: "A wise observer once said, it's not so much what we don't know that hurts us, but also all those things that we are sure we know -- but which are just not so."] ARTICLE: Darwin's Dilemma examines what many consider to be the most powerful refutation of Darwinian evolution - the Cambrian fossil record. Charles Darwin realized that the fossil evidence did not support his theory of gradual, step-by-step evolutionary development. He hoped that future generations of scientists would make the discoveries necessary to validate his ideas. Today, after more than 150 years of exploration fossil evidence of slow, incremental biological change has yet to be excavated. Instead, we find a picture of the rapid appearance of fully developed, complex organisms during the outset of the Cambrian geological era. Organisms that embody the major animal body plans that exist today. This remarkable explosion of life is truly Darwin's Dilemma and is best explained by intelligence. ...
FIRSTTHINGS.COM -- The following is the most insightful statement of what is at issue in the evolution controversy that I have ever read from a senior figure in the scientific establishment. For scientific materialists, materialism comes first and the science comes thereafter: "We [i.e. the 'enlightned' elite] take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, ... in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, *because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism.* ... We are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door." The prior commitment explains why evolutionary scientists ...
Portugal -- A depressão afeta pessoas de todas as idades, de qualquer género ou estatuto social. Provoca sofrimento significativo e pode limitar o funcionamento do indivíduo ao ponto de o impedir de realizar até mesmo as tarefas diárias mais simples. A limitação do funcionamento social e profissional tem impacto nas relações familiares, de amizade e de trabalhos, podendo em última instância ...
Portugal -- A quarentena não tem de ser um período passado em casa resumido ao trabalho ou às quatro paredes que o rodeiam. Pode também aproveitar para ter os seus momentos de lazer e descontração e quem sabe se não acaba de ver aquela série que anda a adiar ou começar a ler aquele livro que há tanto tempo está na ...
Portugal -- Entendemos que ficar em casa não será fácil para as crianças, nem para os pais. Torna-se essencial a mudança de mentalidade, pois irá passar a maior parte do tempo com o seu filho e a rotina diária que fazia antes e depois da escola não será suficiente para o estimular por 12h ou 16h por dia. Se olharmos para ...
UK -- The breakout COVID-19 into a pandemic and subsequent social distancing has led to many of us becoming dependent on new technologies for accessing information, communicating and sharing. A lot of us are researching and finding information about COVID-19 online. For many of us, the internet, social media platforms and networks have now become our main sources of news, information ...
Kenya -- Time to relax those muscles after a good workout! ...
Kenya -- Be inspired to move by these Latin beats! ...
Portugal -- Com a quarentena e com o tempo que passa em casa é cada vez mais difícil querer cozinhar e ter criatividade para cozinhar os melhores pratos. É só olhar para o lava-loiça cheio de loiça suja e perde logo a vontade.... Porém, também não gosta de comer todos os dias a mesma comida. E se puder aprender novos pratos, ...
Portugal -- Com a mais recente situação em que nos encontramos, é necessário ficar em casa para o bem de toda a população. Porém, ficar em casa não deve ser apenas significado de descontração ou de lazer. Pode ser visto como uma possibilidade de aprender, conhecer e aumentar o nosso conhecimento. Ainda por cima, com a Internet e demais ferramentas tecnológicas ...
Portugal -- O The Learning Academy (TLA) é uma plataforma tecnológica que pretende ligar programas de formação e informação educacional com todos os utilizadores interessados. Esta inovadora plataforma pretende ser uma nova forma de contribuir para a melhoria das competências de todo o Jamat. O TLA enquadra-se nas orientações de Mawlana Hazar Imam sobre o Life Long Learning (LLL): "In an ...
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Mawlana Hazar Imam presided over and made opening remarks at the first seminar of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture held at Aiglemont on April 5, 1978.The first review meeting of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. From left to right Doğan Kuban, Hasan uddin Khan, Renata Holod, Mawlana Hazar Imam, Oleg Grabar, William Porter, Nader Ardalan, Garr Campbell, Michael Curtis. ...
GOOGLE.COM -- Ali Shah, surnamed Shah Murad or Murad Mirza lived in Anjudan where his style of living, dress and food, were characterized by a rare simplicity. It is said that the Muharram was the ideal month for the Ismaili pilgrims visiting Anjudan. They carried usually a small dummy taziya (a replica of Imam Hussain's tomb), in the front of the caravan, which allowed them to pass through the bitterest and most aggressive places dressed in Shi'ite garbs. They placed the taziya at the entrance of Anjudan, and took it again while leaving the town. Imam Murad Mirza appointed Bawa Yasir, known as Bawa Sir as a vakil for India. He came in Sind and ...
NPR.ORG -- SALMAAN KESHAVJEE (DIRECTOR, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH DELIVERY), AARON SHAKOW & TOM NICHOLSON -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Required reading for all health professionals.] ARTICLE: There is a lot we can learn from one of the great pandemics of recent centuries: tuberculosis. Like COVID-19, TB is spread through the air. Untreated TB is a death sentence for 80% of those who fall ill and is thought to have killed 1 billion people between 1800 and 2000. Although TB still kills 4,000 people every day in poor countries, it largely disappeared in wealthy countries after the 1950s through a set of tried and tested strategies. Scientists discovered with TB the secret is not to put the everyday life on indefinite hold, but rather to make it progressively safer. They stopped TB using a *community-based* strategy called "search, treat and prevent" and the announcement last Friday of a point-of-care test that can accurately diagnose the coronavirus in as little as five minutes is a game-changer. First they searched ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- TEDX: SALMAAN KESHAVJEE (DIRECTOR, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH DELIVERY)-- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Dr. Keshavjee's TEDx talk was just published, 4 days ago.] ARTICLE: In this enthalling talk, Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee takes us through an understanding of how we can stop the spread of infectious disease, like COVID-19, having developed a global platform for eradicating Tuberculosis. By looking at community based health care delivery platforms in vulnerable communities, he helps us to explore how this model is replicable across different geographies and can be used in the future to tackle other health problems. Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD, ScM,is the Director of Harvard Medical School's Center for Global Health Delivery since 2014. He is currently leading an initiative at Harvard Medical School on how to achieve zero deaths from tuberculosis. In 2005, he became a member of the World Health Organization/Stop TB Partnership's Green Light Committee for MDR-TB Treatment. From 2007 to 2010, he was the committee's chair. He has ...
Kenya -- What can you do when 'Socially Distancing'? Social distancing is a term applied to certain actions that are taken by health officals to stop or slow down the spread of a highly contagious disease. Social distancing measures are taken to restrict when and where people can gather, to stop or slow the spread of infectious diseases. Below are some ...
